Spun Yarns

Polyester Yarn is made out of staple or cut PET or PCDT polyester fibers. Polyester is a category of polymers that mainly comprises of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET). Polyester is a synthetic polymer made from PTA and MEG. Polyester Yarn is the main products in the polyester category. Almost 40% of the world production of polyester is directly used to make Polyester Yarn.

Fabrics woven or knitted from polyester thread or yarn are used extensively in apparel and home furnishings. Industrial polyester fibers, yarns and ropes are used in car tire reinforcements, fabrics for conveyor belts, safety belts, coated fabrics and plastic reinforcements with high-energy absorption. Polyester fiber is used as cushioning and insulating material in pillows, comforters and upholstery padding. Polyester fabrics are highly stain-resistant— in fact, the only class of dyes which can be used to alter the color of polyester fabric are what are known as disperse dyes.

Polyester fibers are sometimes spun together with natural fibers to produce a cloth with blended properties. Polyester in different forms is used widely in textile applications to make polyester (PET)resin and Filament Yarn such as Partially Oriented Yarn (POY),Polyester Drawn Textured Yarn (DTY), Polyester Fully Drawn Yarn (FDY), Polyester Staple Fiber (PSF), Polyester Spun Yarn (PSY), Technical Yarn, Tire cord and Mono filaments Yarn.

Polyester Spun Yarn is available in counts like NE 20/1, 30/1, etc. It is mainly used for knitting & weaving to make polyester fabrics such as consumer fabrics and home furnishings.

Spun yarn is also used in making Sewing thread & embroidery threads. Polyester spun yarn can be Virgin made from Virgin Polyester Staple Fiber or Recycled Spun yarn made from Recycled PSF. Spun Yarn can be waxed which is used for knitting fabrics or un-waxed mainly used for weaving. PSY is commonly available in both single and double ply for use in Textile industry . It can be Raw-white & dyed as well. Both dope-dyed spun yarn & conventional dyed spun yarn can be used to make fabrics.

Spun yarn is also available with different levels of twist. 32 TPI (or 1200 TPM) & 38 TPI (or 1500 TPM) are the common twist for spun yarn. Twisted spun yarn has more strength & tenacity as compared to the normal twist spun yarns.

We can supply you the best quality Virgin & Recycled Polyester spun yarns and also offer you counts as below:

Viscose is both a semi-synthetic fiber, formerly called viscose rayon, or rayon and a solution of cellulose xanthate. The latter is produced by treating dissolving pulp with aqueous sodium hydroxide and carbon disulfide which is used to spin the viscose rayon fiber. Byproducts of the production process include sodium thiocarbonate, sodium carbonate, and sodium sulfide. Viscose rayon fiber is a soft fiber commonly used in dresses, linings, shirts, shorts, coats, jackets, and other outerwear. It is also used in industrial yarns (tyre cord), upholstery and carpets, and in the casting of Cellophane. When Viscose is made, the cellulose is made of wood pulp.

It is used widely & in huge demand owing to its special characteristics like High strength &Low moisture retention.

Viscose is a unique form of wood cellulose acetate that can be used for the manufacturing of a number of different types of products. Viscose can also be made into the more common form of rayon that is used for many types of textile products, including clothing. Viscose rayon has a silky appearance and feel, and also has the ability to breathe in a manner similar to cotton weaves. One of the more popular properties of viscose rayon is that the fabric tends to drape very well, which makes it ideal for use in simple curtains, as well as the perfect fabric to line more formal draperies. Viscose is also being used for linings and furnishing fabrics; providing the staple for towels and table-cloths and was being made into high tenacity yarn for tires. Yet other uses included the manufacture of sponges and absorbent cloths.

The use of viscose is declining, in part because of the environmental costs of its production. Carbon disulphide is a neurotoxic to humans. Instead, rayon may be manufactured using the Lyocell process, which uses N-Methylmorpholine N-oxide as the solvent and produces little waste product, making it relatively eco-friendly.

Viscose Spun Yarn:

Viscose Spun Yarn is made from Viscose Staple Fibre which is a natural product made from wood-pulp or cotton-pulp. We offer high quality Viscose Spun Yarns in Single, Double or Multifold plies for use in weaving, knitting, crochet, carpet piles and industrial use.It is available in counts like 20s, 30s, 40s, etc in 1ply or 2ply. Dyed Yarn is also supplied in double and multifold yarns in raw white, optic white, black, grey, red, blue, and yellow color.

Nylon is a generic designation for a family of synthetic polymers, more specifically aliphatic or semi-aromatic polyamides. They can be melt-processed into fibers, films or shapes. The first example of nylon (nylon 6,6) was produced on February 28, 1935, by Wallace Carothers at DuPont’s research facility at the DuPont Experimental Station. Nylon polymers have found significant commercial applications in fibers (apparel, flooring and rubber reinforcement), in shapes (molded parts for cars, electrical equipment, etc.), and in films (mostly for food packaging).

Nylon is a thermoplastic, silky material, first used commercially in a nylon-bristled toothbrush (1938), followed more famously by women’s stockings after being introduced as a fabric at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Nylon is made of repeating units linked by peptide bonds and is a type of polyamide and is frequently referred to as such. Nylon was the first commercially successful polymer and the first synthetic fiber to be made entirely from coal, water, and air. Nylon is bifurcated in to Nylon 6 & Nylon 66. Nylon 6 is used in manufacturing garments mainly, where are nylon 66 is used to manufacture industrial products like tire cords, ropes for finishing nets.

Nylon can be used in carpet fiber, clothing, fishing lines, footwear, nylon fiber, pantyhose , windpants, toothbrush bristles, velcro, airbag fiber, auto parts intake manifolds, gas (petrol) tanks, slings and rope, used in climbing gear and slacklining ,machine parts, such as gears and bearings, parachutes, metalized, nylon balloons, classical and flamenco guitar strings, paintball marker bolts, racquetball, badminton, squash, and tennis racquet strings ,Strings for String instruments. Nylon fibers are used in many applications, including fabrics, bridal veils, carpets, musical strings and rope. High tenacity nylon fibers are used for seatbelts, tire cords, ballistic cloth and other uses.

Globe Thread Canada is a leading trader of Nylon Yarns and has established itself as a prominent player in trading Nylon Yarn globally.

Partially Oriented Yarn:

Nylon Partially Oriented Yarn (POY) is the primary form of Nylon Yarn categorised in Semi Dull POY and Bright POY available in various colors.

Drawn Textured Yarn:

Drawn Textured Yarn (DTY) is Textured yarn used widely in Textile industry. DTY is available in different specifications like NonIntermingled and High Intermingled in Semi Dull, Full Dull & Bright categories.

Full Drawn Yarn:

Fully Drawn Yarn (FDY),Nylon FDY has its wide use in making thread for knitting & weaving. FDY can be categorised in Semi Dull, Full Dull & Bright.

Nylon Chips:

Nylon Chips are used for manufacturing textile grade yarns as well as industrial products. Available luster for nylon chips are Bright & Semi Dull.

Nylon 6 chip is obtainable by hydrolytic polymerization of caprolactam in the presence of dicarboxylic acids as chain regulators, subsequent processing of the polymer melt into chip, extraction of the low molecular weight portions from the chip with water and subsequent drying of the chip.

Nylon 66 is made of hexamethylene diamine and adipic acid are combine with water in a reactor which gives nylon salt after polymerization process nylon 66 is produced. They are used for manufacturing textile grade yarns as well as industrial products. Available luster are Bright & Semi Dull.

Acrylic is synthetic material with a wide range of possible end uses. Acrylic can be made into yarn or fabric as well as many other types of products. Acrylic is a type of plastic  or a manufactured fiber in which the fiber-forming substance is any long chain synthetic polymer composed of at least 85 percent by weight of acrylonitrile units.

Some of the benefits of acrylic yarn include are that it is Widely available, Affordable, Durable, Washable, Stitch definition, Non-allergenic. 

Being a leader in yarn trading, Globe Thread Canada works with companies across the world to supply various types of Acrylic Yarns as below:

Linen is a textile made from the fibers of the flax plant. Linen is laborious to manufacture, but the fiber is very absorbent and garments made of linen are valued for their exceptional coolness and freshness in hot weather.

Many products are made of linen: aprons, bags, towels (swimming, bath, beach, body and wash towels), napkins, bed linens, tablecloths, runners, chair covers, and men’s and women’s wear.

Linen yarn is spun using fibers from the flax (linseed) plant, the fibers absorb moisture from the skin and release it into the air, giving it a lovely cool, crisp feeling on even the hottest of days.

Globe Thread Canada offers various types of Linen Yarn including Dry Spun, Wet Spun, and Blended Linen Yarns.

Dry Spun Linen Yarn:

Dry spun yarn is usually used in production of twines, food, agriculture and other industries. We offer:

• dry spun yarn from Nm 0.2 to Nm 6
• unpolished and polished
• twisted 1,2,3,4,5 ply
• in balls or on bobins

Yarn is made from high quality European and Eastern European flax fibers.

Wet Spun Linen Yarn:

Wet spun flax yarn is used in weaving of linen fabrics, what will used for apparel or home textile. We offer good quality linen yarn made from selected European flax fiber. We can provide it bleached, natural or dyed.

Linen’s physical and chemical properties are listed below in the table.

Ramie is commonly known as China grass, white ramie, green ramie and rhea, is one of the group referred to as the bast fiber crops. It is a hardy perennial belonging to the Urticaceae or Nettle family, which can be harvested up to 6 times a year. It produces a large number of unbranched stems from underground rhizomes and has a crop life from 6 to 20 years. The bark contains gums and pectins causing the fibers to be useable only after chemical treatment.

The true ramie or ‘China Grass’ is also known as ‘white ramie’ and is the Chinese cultivated plant. It has large heart shaped, crenate leaves covered on the underside with white hairs that give it a silvery appearance. Boehmeria nivea var. tenacissima, is known as ‘green ramie’ or ‘rhea’.

Ramie fiber is very durable, is pure white in colour and has a silky luster. It is reported to have a tensile strength eight times that of cotton and seven times greater than silk. However, other reports claim that the tensile strengths of cotton, flax, hemp and ramie are similar. These discrepancies can be partly attributed to the effects of source of supply, method of processing, the test conditions, temperature and humidity, on the fiber strength.

Silk yarns and threads are classed as either reeled or spun. Both types have different properties. Reeled is sometimes consider superior due to the very long fiber lengths. But spun silk has high qualities as well.

Reeled Silk Yarn

Reeled, or filament silk is the highest quality yarn and is very white and shiny. First the cocoons are inspected and sorted, as only those with a perfect shape can be used for the reeling procedure. Cocoons are soaked in warm water to soften the gummy sericin. The silken strand from a single cocoon is too fine to use alone, so individual filaments of 6-20 cocoons are unravelled at the same time, travelling through a very small eye. The softened sericin dries, hardens and binds the strands together to become one thread the size of a human hair.

Reeled Yarn Count

The count of reeled yarns is based on denier, a unit of measurement used to arrive at the diameter of a strand of silk. One denier (D) = 1 gram (g) weight which measures 9,000 metres (m) of filament. Translated into the imperial system this is: 1D = 9,750 yd (or just over 5 miles) of silk filament weighing 1/28 of an ounce. A strand of silk from an average cocoon is 2–3 denier and barely discernible by the human eye. A D 20/22 yarn is comprised of filaments from 8 cocoons which may be as thick as a hair from your head.

Spun Silk Yarns

Spun silk is made from the cocoon fibers which remain after initial reeling.The weak filament of the transparent silken envelope remaining from the reeling process, and the damaged, discoloured, or imperfectly shaped cocoons become the raw material for lustrous, creamy coloured spun silk yarn. This cocoon “waste” must first have the sericin removed (degummed) with soap and water. Next, the fibre is cut into uniform lengths and carded to remove short tangled bits as well as the brown pupa inside the cocoons. Combing lays all the fibres parallel in a sliver which is spun into a shimmering yarn. Spun silk is the most familiar yarn made available to handworkers. Wild silk is most often spun.

Spun Yarn Count

The count used for spun silk is the metric count system, used for cotton, linen and wool. In determining spun silk, 1 gram (g) (1/28 of an oz) is the stable figure. One metre (m) (39 inches) of yarn weighing 1g is 1m count or a #1 yarn. A #10 silk is 10m/g and has 10,000 m/kg. This translates to 4,970 yd/lb.

A pair of numbers identifies the size of plied yarns. A 20/2 spun silk is comprised of two strands (bottom number) of a #20 (top number) yarn. The 20 indicates that each strand is 20 times finer than a #1 silk, which has 497 yd/lb. To calculate the yardage of any spun silk yarn, multiply the yarn size by 497 and divide by the ply number. A 20/2 silk has 4970 yd/lb. The higher the number e.g. 20, 30, 60 the thinner the yarn and greater the yardage.

Wool is the textile fiber obtained from sheep and certain other animals, including cashmere from goats, mohair from goats, qiviut from muskoxen, angora from rabbits, and other types of wool from camelids.  Yarn designating “wool” as a component contains wool from sheep.  Wool has several qualities that distinguish it from hair or fur: it is crimped, it is elastic, and it grows in staples or locks (clusters).  Wool’s scaling and crimp make it easier to spin the fleece by helping the individual fibers attach to each other, so they stay together. Because of the crimp, wool fabrics have greater bulk than other textiles, and they hold air, which causes the fabric to retain heat.Felting of wool occurs upon hammering or other mechanical agitation as the microscopic barbs on the surface of wool fibers hook together.  Wool fibers readily absorb moisture, but are not hollow.  Wool can absorb almost one-third of its own weight in water.  Wool absorbs sound, like many other fabrics.  It is generally a creamy white color, although some breeds of sheep produce natural colors, such as black, brown, silver, and random mixes.

Wool is usually specified for garments for firefighters, soldiers, and others in occupations where they are exposed to the likelihood of fire.  Wool is considered by the medical profession to be hypoallergenic.

Globe Thread Canada offers various grades of wool from across the globe. Please see the below table for different grades of wool we offer

Hemp or industrial hemp, typically found in the northern hemisphere, is a variety of the Cannabis sativa plant species that is grown specifically for the industrial uses of its derived products. It is one of the fastest growing plants and was one of the first plants to be spun into usable fiber 10,000 years ago. It can be refined into a variety of commercial items including paper, textiles, clothing, biodegradable plastics, paint, insulation, biofuel, food, and animal feed.

Hemp yarn with a size of Nm 10 (Nm 10 yarn = 10,000m/kg) from single to multiple plies of 2, 3, 6 and 12 in either natural or bleached (using peroxide) suitable for any number of uses including weaving, knitting, macarame, craft, home and garden uses. Made from earth-friendly wet spun hemp, these yarns are smooth, durable as well as beautiful in any application.

Aramid fibers are a class of heat-resistant and strong synthetic fibers. They are used in aerospace and military applications, for ballistic-rated body armor fabric and ballistic composites, in bicycle tires, and as an asbestos substitute. The name is a portmanteau of “aromatic polyamide”. They are fibers in which the chain molecules are highly oriented along the fiber axis, so the strength of the chemical bond can be exploited.

Carbon fibers  are fibers about 5–10 micrometres in diameter and composed mostly of carbon atoms. Carbon fibers have several advantages including high stiffness, high tensile strength, low weight, high chemical resistance, high temperature tolerance and low thermal expansion.

These properties have made carbon fiber very popular in aerospace, civil engineering, military, and motorsports, along with other competition sports. However, they are relatively expensive when compared with similar fibers, such as glass fibers or plastic fibers.

To produce a carbon fiber, the carbon atoms are bonded together in crystals that are more or less aligned parallel to the long axis of the fiber as the crystal alignment gives the fiber high strength-to-volume ratio (making it strong for its size). Several thousand carbon fibers are bundled together to form a tow, which may be used by itself or woven into a fabric.

Globe Thread Canada offers various types of Carbon and Aramid yarns depending upon customer requirements.

Bamboo Yarn is made out of bamboo fibers. Bamboo fibre is a cellulose fibre extracted or fabricated from natural bamboo, and possibly other additives, and is made from the pulp of bamboo plants. It is usually not made from the fibres of the plant, but is a synthetic viscose made from bamboo cellulose. Cellulose from bamboo is suitable for processing into viscose rayon. Bamboo leaves and the soft, inner pith from the hard bamboo trunk are extracted using a steaming process and then mechanically crushed.

Viscose manufactured from bamboo is promoted as having environmental advantages over wood-pulp viscose. Bamboo crops may be grown on marginal land unsuitable for forestry; although demand for bamboo has sometimes led to felling of forests to plant bamboo, though this has become less common since Chinese forestry policy reforms in the 1990s. The viscose processing results in the same chemical waste products as wood-pulp viscose, notably carbon disulfide, but bamboo cellulose is suitable for a closed-loop viscose process that captures all solvents used.

Advantages of using Bamboo Yarn:

• Antibacterial – keeps you odor free and feeling and smelling fresh
• Highly sweat absorbent – keeps you dry
• Powerfully insulating – keeps you cooler in summer and warmer in winter
• One of the softest fabrics on the planet you’ll love the way it feels
• Naturally UV protectant – protect yourself from skin cancer
• Hypoallergenic – natural bamboo does not cause allergic reactions
• Most eco-friendly fabric on the planet – help save your planet

For any of your bamboo yarn related procurement needs please contact us by clicking on the below link.

Milk Yarn is made from milk protein fibers. To make it, milk is first dewatered, i.e. all the water content is taken out from it and then it is skimmed. New bio-engineering technique is then applied to make a protein spinning fluid. This fluid is suitable for wet spinning process through which the final high-grade textile fiber is made. While spinning, a solvent is used by most of the manufacturers and micro-zinc ion is embedded in the fiber which gives it the characteristics of being bacteriostatic and durable. It combines the advantages of both, natural as well as synthetic fibers.

Characteristics of Milk Yarn

The milk yarn has got many properties that are enough to make it one of the most sought after fabrics of the future.

1. The natural protein humectant factor is present in the milk fiber, which makes skin more delicate and smooth. As such Fabrics made of milk yarns are suitable for household textiles.
2. The amino acids present in the fiber make it antibacterial and antifungal.
3. It is glossy and luxurious in appearance, feel and comfortability, just like silk.
4. It has many beneficial chemical properties such as moderated fiber breaking tenacity and modulus,etc.
5. It is hygroscopic in nature, as such it absorbs moisture very well.
6. It is very easy to dye and can be dyed under normal temperature.
7. It has the property of color fastness.
8. It can be blended well with other fibers such as cotton, modal, tencel and bamboo etc.